Hello everybody!Spring is here, and I've finally made something out of my old cherry fabric!I wanted something to wear at spring, this is why I've made a long sleeves dress. I'll maybe make anoher one with another coupon but without the sleeves this time.

I sometimes wonder if the sleeveless version is not better. I think it is, but I wanted something different from what you can usually buy... :) I've tried short sleeves, long sleeves, puffy sleeves. In the end I've chosen the 3/4 sleeves version

Sorry about the slefie stick, I used to laugh about this kind of stuff but I've received one as a gift in one of my fabric packages and I have to admit it's quite usefull to take some pics of my creations :)

J'ai passé environ 5h sur cette robe, dont pas mal de temps sur les ourlets à la main, et en comptant la création du patron ^^ Ma surjeteuse m'a fait gagner beaucoup de temps pour le coup!I've made the bodice out of a dress I liked, I've taken inspiration from a 50s pattern for the sleeves, and the skirt is a full circle. Time used for this dress with the making of the bodice pattern ~5h.My overlocker made me win SO MUCH time!

I've chosen a pattern from Sensibility.com for the bodice. I've taken many pics and videos to make a making of so my best friend can see how it's made since she's interested into making one someday. I still don't know if I'll make this making of public. I'll think about it later :)

Here's the little coupon I've found. (3meters=~+3yards). The website I used to buy my fabric from becomes worse and worse, when they don't call me to say that finally they don't have the item I ordered, the color is wrong.. gah.

It's a drawstring dress, it closed with strings around the neck and waist. But I was a bit annoyed. I didn't want pleats on my front sirt, and it was impossible not to have some with the sensibility pattern, so I've made my own skirt pattern, and added buttonholes in the back :)

Note that I've secured the edges with an overlocker, my goal wasn't to make something 100% historical, I wanted to sew, to use my sewing machines. I've already made a regency dress 100% by hand, nobody can tell me I haven't tried haha :) But this was not the purpose here, and as the dress is made only for my own pleasure, and because no event is associated to this project, I plan maybe to sell it, I don't know, and everybody knows that unfortunately, the basic buyer generally don't understand why it's so messy inside a dress while we adoooooore this kind of detail from an handmade dress! ^^'

I've looked for a skirt pattern for a long time! Thans to Carmen, I found a good one! My fabric had a direction! Damned! It looked like I didn't have a lot of fabric left, but fortunatly, I've spent too much time on photoshop and with the Pf Layton to solve this puzzle!

On m'a offert une perche à selfie dans une commande. Je n'y trouvais aucun intérêt avant de me rendre compte que c'était pratique pour regarder derrière soi quand on a personne pour prendre la photo. I've received a selfie stick gift in a order I've made some days ago. I use to think that this was useless until I realized that it helped a lot to check my back when I make a costume since I don't always have someone to help me :P

Little tribute to my "Papy Charles" who'has left us last Monday. He offered me my first sewing machine and I still use it today. He's also initiated me to music , and is certainly responsible for my
"drawing genes". ♥ He was a clockmaker, creativity and exactitude were
his religion.

I
don't/can't sew a lot these days, since destiny is really really rude
with me since some months. But I won't give up! I've sewn a little
regency dress lately. It was just a little project I've forced myself to
do instead of staying on my sofa all day long. It's not a very
interesting project but it was a good occupation. I'll talk about it
soon, and also post the making of the little video we've made for the
Cesar's ceremony (the french oscars). I'm SO late.

I'm sorry for being away so often these last months, I was busy with many things lately, I wasn't able to sew, but I wanted to learn something new: crochet! I know crochet quite well since I've been learning it when I was very very young, with my grandmother. I have the dexterity and speed, but since I only know how to make scarves and doilies - and without instructions... which makes a weird result sometimes :P ... I wasn't really attracted by crochet. Speed and method aren't enough, especially if you don't know how to read some instructions!

And then I remembered that my grandmother gave me 2 magazines some years ago (I've almost thrown them away several times!). I don't know why, I was sure I had seen this dress before, and tadaaa! The pattern was in one of those 2 magazines! Am I lucky or whaaat'? Then I've read the instructions... SO SCARY! It was like driving a car correctly but without the theory test! haha! It was like a big puzzle game to me... So I've made something that would talk to me better: making the diagram in Photoshop. I needed to vizualize the whole thing, and suddenly everything became clearer!

And I was right! The dress with more rows fits really better! I've added soo many rows! Take note of the difference between the sleeve with their instructions (bottom) and the sleeve that was really needed (top)... It was really really too small. Only a little girl may have this armhole size.

I don't know if I'll really wear this dress. I'm quite discreet on this subject (I've been thinking a lot of time about showing the dress on me here...), even if this dress is already made for people like me who doesn't want to cross the beach with only a bikini haha. It's still not enough for me, so I think of making a lining. This project was more like a spare time projec, and I'm happy with this principle already.

Next step: back to knitting! And it will be haaaard since I only remember the garter stitch. I know jersey a bit but I suck at it! I don't know if I'm going to show you this next projet since I don't even know if I'll give up haha! Jessica has posted many beautiful things on her blog, and one of her project gave me enough motivation, and since I'm inspired by her work, it's another reason not to post it I guess (?) Well I don't know, anyway, all the credit will belong to her :D